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Bâtiment TSE, Auditorium 4, October 8, 2021, 09:00–11:00
Davide Cantoni (University of Munich)
October 7, 2021, 11:00–12:30, ONLINE
This paper studies the role of fiscal capacity in European state consolidation. Our analysis isorganized around novel data on the territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in theEarly Modern era. Territories implementing an early fiscal reform were more likely to survive,...
Frédéric Lavancier (Nantes University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 7, 2021, 11:00–12:15, room A5
Various spatio-temporal data record the time of birth and death of individuals, along with their spatial trajectories during their lifetime, whether through continuous-time observations or discrete-time observations. The data at hand can be viewed as a random set of points, the cardinality and the...
Andrey Tkachenko
TSE, October 7, 2021, 11:00–12:30, Salle d'Atelier
This paper studies the competitive effect of vertical integration between pharmaceutical drug producers and distributors in an auction setting. Exploiting data on 814 thousand public procurement auctions supplying 2.5 million drugs in Russia, I identify the causal effect of vertical integration on...
October 6, 2021, 14:00–17:00, room Amphitéâtre Guy Isaac - Manufacture des Tabacs
Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale University)
TSE, October 5, 2021, 17:00–18:30, Online
We build a novel equilibrium model in which households’ labor supply choices form the link between sorting on the marriage and sorting on the labor market. We first show that the nature of home production – whether partners’ hours are complements or substitutes – shapes marriage market sorting,...
Stéphane Bonhomme
TSE, October 5, 2021, 15:30–17:00, room Auditorium 4
How much do individuals contribute to team output? I propose an econometric framework to quantify individual contributions when only the output of their teams is observed. The identification strategy relies on following individuals who work in different teams over time. I consider two production...
Thomas Philippon (New -York University)
October 5, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study an economy where consumers and merchants interact on a two-sided platform. The platform gathers consumer data and sells it to merchants. Data sharing increases gains from trade by improving match quality, but also generates two externalities which increase the market power of the platform...
Ludvig Sinander (University of Oxford - Nuffield College)
Toulouse: TSE, October 5, 2021, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We identify a new dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a general model in which a technological breakthrough occurs at an uncertain time and is privately observed by an agent, and a principal must incentivise...
Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich)
October 5, 2021, 10:00–11:00, BDF Paris
Heterogeneous firm models are central to the modern economics literature. In this context, we revisit a central feature of these models: the nature of idiosyncratic shocks faced by firms. Using firm level data, we show that the commonly assumed parametric distributions of the shocks firms face...
